<rant>
> To Ross Wm. Rader: the above url is evidence. Please go and talk to your
> bosses and other authoritive management in Tucows and *persuade* them
> through whatever means to reduce the price from USD10 to USD8. Don't
> worry, Tucows still can get a USD2 revenue, if you sell domains at USD8
> wholesale registration.
>
> I am sure Tucows has got 2 Million domains by now, so your revenue will
> still be profitable - USD4 Million.
<sarcasm>Wow. Must be cool to have no business expenses other then the
$6/domain/year from NSI... Even I, a basement nerd running my own business
in competition with my dayjob ISP (Whom is also my bandwidth provider, and
yes, very much aware of what I am doing), have more expences then
nothing.</sarcasm>
And if the cost of operating the backbone, office space, ICANN, NSI fees,
server hardware and maintence, devolopment team, credit card transaction
fees, and whatnot other bills total up to $3million/year for OpenSRS? Then
in profit, that's only $1Million, instead of $5million. Personally, it
simply amazes me that anyone could dare to suggest to another business that
they should cut their profit so that I can make more money on my own.
<sarcasm>Do you want to cut your profits to 1/5 of what they are now? If
so, I'll gladly take the extra 4/5ths. </sarcasm>
> > If you're so damn unhappy with the prices, go and buy one 'retail' and
then
> > resell it.
>
> Most of us need an Open source customizable API and client to put on our
> web sites to allow automated registrations. Also, open srs client is
> licensed under GNU GPL so our modifications are copyrighted by us, not
> Tucows or NSI. That is why we use Open SRS.
>
Well darn. Domains cost a little bit more, and I'll-be-damned you get more
for your money. Imagine that, you get awesome support, you get a
customizable client, you get the client to be GNU GPL'd, and all at the
healthy cost of $2/domain more then the competition.
It's your choice, stay with OpenSRS, keep your client and everything else,
and pay a bit more, or don't. If that extra $2 is really worth *THAT* much
to your business model then my friend, you'd better hope that your domain
registrations don't drop 10 or 20 domains one month, or you are dead in the
water.
Perhaps we need a few lists. Hey, we could have cross posted this whole
thread
whining-about-prices@
telling-opensrs-how-to-run-their-business@
telling-others-to-make-less-money@
and who could forget the one I'd be part of (Hell, I'll moderate this puppy)
sarcastic-bitter-support-personal-take-revenge-on-whining-price-people@
</rant>
I'm done. Thanks for reading.
